Another article that represents my Sicilianism, dedicated to the coasts keepers, from Augusta to Favignana, passing from Lampedusa and then moving to San Vito lo Capo, hiking up to the top of Strombolicchio to the Montorsoli Beacon, visible to those coming from the continent. My lighthouse, with its essential shapes, represents them all and has become one of the most captivating items in my production.

      This music box was created for the owner of a travel agency. What better than a plane to express the wish of a carefree departure!

    Created for a photographer, this music box depicts her main instrument, a vintage camera: “the camera is a sort of professor: it teaches me to understand the world, to see how things come together. It teaches me to remember the past because it makes me look back. I obey from time to time, but not always. It’s like a person”. Arno Rafael Minkkinen

    By now, ice cream carts are rare in Italian and European metropolis. They were one of the symbols of products “made in Italy” exported abroad as a consequence of Italian emigration. When a mother from Palermo requested me a music box for her daughter, which would bring her back in time, I remembered an ancient photo I had seen in a café, portraying an ice cream seller and his cart: a vintage yet romantic idea.

    Il is difficult to put into words that wonderful feeling of enchantment and incredulity that one feels when watching at his newborn baby. I have tried to do it with my music box Enchantment, created for a couple of new parents from New York. Mom and Dad hold each other’s hands, united and filled with tenderness, they contemplate that little creature in silence almost holding their breath, a single thought: “Because you are there. You really are there”.

    A girl wished something unique for her friends, a music box that recalled freedom… Who hasn’t dreamt to fly and to do it together with beloved people? I imagined them on a hot-air balloon, weightless and timeless, like if they were hanging on the sky, in the world where birds plunge their wings into the clouds.    

    A photographer’s gaze on the world passes through his camera’s viewfinder. This is the idea that guided me in creating the music box Point of View, ordered by a girl from Padua as a gift for her uncle, who is a photographer. Here you see the photographer on the background of the music box, leaning on his equipment aiming the lens to shoot as a gigantic human eye.